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Faced with the danger of the WHO pandemic treaty, citizens are organizing
Faced with the danger of the WHO pandemic treaty, citizens are organizingFrance Soir - March 23, 2024
Sunday March 10, meeting with Corinne Lalo and Etienne Chouard, during a conference-debate in the town of Massy (Essonne).
A day to discuss the World Health Organization treaty which provides new provisions for future pandemic crises. At the end of the conference, and at the initiative of Martin Loizillon, in small groups, the participants discussed the various social issues linked to the WHO political project.
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The Global War on Thoughtcrime
The Global War on ThoughtcrimeThe Media in 4-4-2 - Sep 07, 2023
What implications for freedom of expression?
Many laws aimed at combating disinformation and misinformation are being passed in Western countries, with the partial exception of the United States, where the First Amendment is in effect. This situation has led to the implementation of more discreet censorship methods.
An unexpected response to these restrictive laws may come from literary criticism. The terms used, such as the prefixes added to the word “information”, are misleading. Information, whether contained in a book, article or otherwise, remains a passive artefact. It cannot act by itself, and therefore, it cannot break any law. The Nazis may have burned books, but they didn't arrest or imprison them. Thus, when lawmakers seek to prohibit “disinformation,” they cannot target information as such, but rather the creation of meaning.
Authorities use variations of the term “information” to imply that these are objective truths, but that is not the crux of the matter. Do these laws, for example, apply to the forecasts of economists or financial analysts, who regularly make erroneous predictions? Of course not. However, credible economic or financial forecasts could have a significant impact on populations.
These laws are designed more to target the intent of the authors, aiming to create meanings that do not conform to the official position of the government. “Disinformation” is generally defined in dictionaries as intentionally misleading and harmful information. In contrast, “misinformation” involves the dissemination of truthful facts, but with malicious intent. Determining the author's intent is often crucial in these cases.
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The end of democracy and the rise of single thought
The end of democracy and the rise of single thoughtInternational Network - Jul 06, 2023
The ethical state is defined as the form institutionalized by the philosophers Hobbes and Hegel, in which the state institution is the ultimate end towards which the actions of individuals must tend for the realization of a universal good.
Over time, however, the concept of the ethical state has taken on a different composition and has come to assume a totalitarian dimension in which good and evil are the result of imposition independent of what should be the contract of basis between state and citizen. Thomas Hobbes is considered the father of modern political philosophy with his distancing from classical world thinking on sociality and human politics; Hobbes inaugurates the contractualist method where men will find common rules by sacrificing part of their freedom in exchange for the protection and respect of the established rules and will refer to a single great institutional representative whom he defines as the Leviathan; in this sense, Hobbes is defined as the main theorist of the absolute state or absolutism in which the sovereign is considered to be above universal law.
After Hobbes, Hegel (illustration), the idealist philosopher, defines the State as an ethical substance conscious of itself; the state is the highest expression of ethics, a theory that contrasts sharply with the natural law and contractualism of modern political philosophy. The state, asserts Hegel, is the source of freedom and of the ethical norm for the individual, it is the supreme end and the absolute arbiter of good and evil.
However, the Hegelian state is not a true absolutist and totalitarian state, but a living organic unity which must adapt to the natural changing circumstances of human society. For Hegel, the ethical state is the last moment of the subjective and objective mind, Hegel affirms that freedom is and remains at all times the historical condition of philosophy since ancient Greece. For Hegel, a combination of the common good and the personal good must be found in the state within the limits due to the interaction of individuals. Hegel's position was later countered by the critique of Karl Popper, who defined the ethical state as a closed society, as opposed to the rule of law proper to an open society.
The ethical state theory was then taken up in the XNUMXth century to explain fascist and communist states, which were in fact totalitarian states in which individual liberties were repressed according to the higher rules of Hobbes' "Leviathan".
The successive democratic constitutions which have governed the rule of law until the last century base their existence on a fragile balance between rights and freedom, between the general interest and the protection of minorities which opposes the single thought.
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Are you a "thought criminal"?
Are you a "thought criminal"?Digital Dawn - Jan 02, 2023
If we are not free to think what we want, we do not have a free society. It's as simple as that.
Unfortunately, there is now an overwhelming consensus among elitists in the Western world on the need to institute radical measures to control what people think. If you insist on being a rebel, chances are you will be punished for holding unorthodox views. You won't necessarily be put in jail, but our system has countless other ways to punish you.
You are not meant to contradict the conditioning you have received from our educational system, the news media, our politicians, and the corporate entertainment you are fed for hours every day.
When you deviate from socially acceptable viewpoints, you are guilty of a "thought crime."
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The conspirator's problem is that he wants to think for himself?!
The Media in 4-4-2 - Dec 03, 2022
The neuroscientist Dieguez: "The problem of the conspirator is that he wants to think for himself, to do his own research"
We bring you a master class in the company of the neuroscientist Sebastian Dieguez who spoke during the program "Infrarouge" of the Swiss channel RTS, June 3, 2020. The title of the program "What vaccine against conspiracy? is presented by Alexis Favre.
During the debate, the neuroscientist regrets that the conspirator does not follow the herd: "What makes the conspirator is that he will do research for himself, he wants to think for himself, he wants to see by himself…” Taken aback by this surreal discourse, journalist Myret Zaki picks up Sebastian Dieguez, wondering how it is possible to utter such nonsense.
